Black Futures
2022-2025
A collaboration with the Kennedy Center’s Social Impact team, the National Symphony Orchestra and Washington National Opera, The Cartography Project is a multi-year commissioning project engaging artists from around the nation to map Black dignity and Black futures.
Inspired by the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a visual interpretation of the moral trauma of our history, The Cartography Project seeks to use music as both a source of healing and a way to open dialogue about the future of anti-racism. The NSO, WNO, and Kennedy Center will be commissioning composers and librettists from regions spanning the entire country to create work that responds to an event that has occurred in that region and also asks, “Where do we go from here?”
2022-2025
2021-2022
Bernstein Family Foundation, the Microsoft Corporation, and the Orlebeke Foundation